Well, howdy, everybody!

My name is Mick Sullivan, and this is the past and the curious.

This is episode 63.

This is the last episode of 2021.

Whoa, I hope you have a good new year.

It's almost here.

I'm looking forward to it.

I have some really exciting things to share with you, but that's going to have to wait

for another day.

Today, we're going to talk about toys.

It's become a tradition of sorts.

I think for the last three years, we've done an end of the year episode that focused

on toys and how they kind of entered our lives.

You know, most of them have interesting scenarios, and in fact, most of them, most of the

ones we highlight, we're kind of accidents.

And that's the case with what you're going to hear today.

One of these stories, my Patreon subscribers, may recognize an earlier version of, I think

I gave it to them last year.

But I liked it, and so I developed it a little bit further.

And that's the second one that's about Play-Doh.

But first, we're going to hear about Silly Putty, which really starts with Rubber.

Rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber, rubber is a fun word

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